Mozilla’s new focus on Thunderbird, creating a new non-profit organization to develop it and seeding it with 3 million dollars. After the previous uncertainty, this is great news.
Mozilla’s new focus on Thunderbird, creating a new non-profit organization to develop it and seeding it with 3 million dollars. After the previous uncertainty, this is great news.
It was my first time trying a desktop email client because I’ve never trusted anything else, and I’ve been using Thunderbird faithfully for nearly a year with absolutely no problems. Now that this is happening I don’t know what else to say but ‘wow’. Go Thunderbird! And of course go Mozilla and Firefox.
I never saw it as uncertainty. They basically laid the ground work for yesterdays announcement. They said Thunderbird wasn’t getting the focus it deserved, and debated spinning it off. In doing so they strove to make it work like it has for Firefox, like they said they would.
There has been talk of doing the same for Sunbird also.
Hmmmm… My Thunderbird hasn’t been working the way it should in several versions. When I first downloaded it a year or two ago, it actually did put stuff in the junk box and would learn after a few times what was junk and when I marked stuff junk, it would automatically put stuff in the junk box. Now, it doesn’t do any of that. It’s like having Eudora Pro again without the tabs. I’ve been thinking I could just go back to Eudora Pro in fact because at least every month or so I’m not forced to upgrade and lose all of my extensions/plugins.
Also, it stopped saving addresses in the address book a year ago, especially when I tell it to save. I’ve even tried uninstalling and reinstalling. I have to look up my Aunt’s email in my paper address book every single time.
Thunderbird is a great email client and it suits my needs perfectly. I despise Outlook and much prefer Thunderbird’s functionality, look and feel over the many other email clients available.
I’ve been using Thunderbird for at least five years and have tried many other clients (i.e. Eudora, Mutt, Pine, Netscape, Outlook and Outlook Express to name a few) and I always come back to T-bird.
Fantastic news. I’ve been a big fan of Thunderbird since switching to it from Pegasus Mail about 2 to 3 years ago (can’t remember exactly when). I love how easy it is to set up several email accounts. Never had a problem with application and am extremely pleased that future is no longer in question.
While Outlook may “suck,” I’ve yet to find the functionality that matches it for being able to pull e-mails from several different accounts, AND assign different signatures to those different accounts in Thunderbird.
Bill Simon: Really? Just go to the Account Settings menu and hit the “Add account” to add more accounts (regular e-mail, gmail, you name it). If you want different signatures for the accounts you just click the account you want to change and select “Attach this signature”. Easy as that.